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Motueka Star, Volume II, Issue 42, 7 January 1902, Page 3

The local Postmaster, Mr H, E* Gilbert, requests us r to state that in future the private box lobby will be open daily, from 7.45a.m., to 9 p.m,, except on Sundays’and public holidays, when the lobby, will be open for half an hour after the arrival of the mails, or as may be specially notified. A little girl named Newell wasstruk in the, eye by a stone from a catapult which was being used by a playmate at Dannevirke on Boxing Day. A nerve 'connecting >vith the brain was injured, and she died two or three day’s afterwards.

Professor Raymond the well known botanical specialist and globe tro.tter, gives it as his opinion that. Auckland is a city of half starved ignorant snobbery and mock gentility. Which city comes next in order of shoddy and , snobbishness ?

A remarkable horse has just been placed on the retired list. It belongs to Dr W. J. Dawes of Longton, Staffordshire. During the 17 k years of its useful life it has travelled in the course of its daily round of visits to patients a distance of seventy-five thousand miles, or equal to a journey three times round the world.

The English and German Trans-at-la.ll tic steamship lines have begun a was of rate cutting. The Cunard Company has lowered its cabin passage fare £2, and the North German Lloyd has followed suit. The White Star Line will probably do the same. The Cunard Company accuses the Germans of giving expensive staterooms at minimum rates. A long and sensational struggle between the English and German shipping companies is predicted. The secret of the marvellous and long-sustained prosperity of New Zealand (says the Westminster Gazette) is explained in the new official Handbook published by direction of the Minister of Lands. New Zealand, in brief, is the paradise of the farmer and of the dairyman. What may be called the natural industries of the soil yield .£9,000,000 out of a, total export list of .£12,000,000. And the true source whence comes the-wealth of New Zealand is its rich grasses. The rich meadow grasses of New Zealand are not so much the gift of N ature as the creation of human industry.. At Sydney, the hundred yards amateur championship of New South Wales was won by Moir in 10 2-ssec. A writer, signing himself T.M.D., has a letter in the Westport Times, pointing out the advantages of the Whakarewa Orphanage as a Protestant institution, and soliciting subscriptions on behalf of the same. The members of the Federal Senate were recently airing their views upon the proper sphere of woman, when Sir* Frederick 'Sargood rather startled his brother Senators by declaring that he had seen a woman and a horse harnessI ed together to a plough in progressive and civilised South Australia.